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46. You're welcome! After seeing that editorial from the U of Pennsylvania student paper yesterday, reading

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Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them. (Psychology Today, 3/22) [View all] highplainsdem Sunday OP

Not happening here! SheltieLover Sunday #1

Yvw, Sheltie! There is so much pressure and hype to use AI from the AI industry, and now from the Trump regime. highplainsdem Sunday #4

And it's hard to escape. Most major search engines have it embedded. erronis Sunday #16

Its similar to spell check, unless a person takes the effort to turn it off.. BlueWaveNeverEnd 16 hrs ago #57

The risks, IMO, are a given and I will never embrace this dysfunctional garbage. SheltieLover Sunday #32

K & R Raastan Sunday #2

Thanks! highplainsdem Sunday #6

Important article Wild blueberry Sunday #3

You're welcome! After seeing that editorial from the U of Pennsylvania student paper yesterday, reading highplainsdem Sunday #46

Another skill that too many younglings have lost... GiqueCee Sunday #5

I can't write in cursive, either. GenThePerservering Sunday #7

Over the 70-odd years... GiqueCee Sunday #13

For what it's worth, I can't tell time on a sundial. Or use Stonehenge to schedule a harvest. JustABozoOnThisBus Sunday #18

Neither. I click on the receiver cradle multiple times. erronis Sunday #22

Whoa! GiqueCee Sunday #29

easy Mossfern Sunday #41

The reason I was told in elementary school for learning cursive is because it is FASTER progree Sunday #24

Personally. I like Roman Numeral clocks. Sequoia Sunday #44

I have the clacky electric portable typewriter with ribbon too. Sadly, no rotary dial phone, progree Sunday #45

And party line phones. Sequoia 18 hrs ago #54

Your first two sentences reveal the tenuous ground the cursive argument stands on. Ilikepurple Sunday #25

My wife has a Masters Degree in Special Ed... GiqueCee Sunday #38

I think it would be interesting to hear your wives anecdotes, but you only mentioned analog clocks in your prior post. Ilikepurple Sunday #47

Cursive was torture for me. hunter Yesterday #52

I have a similar background. I didn't use cursive until I started college. Ilikepurple 11 hrs ago #58

I couldn't agree more. SheltieLover Sunday #33

IDIOCRACY becomes reality and defines a new class of fuedal peasantry. Ford_Prefect Sunday #8

YOU GOT IT !!!!! Stargazer99 Sunday #23

Unlike many, BidenRocks Sunday #9

A.I. stands for Artificial Insemination. Same thing for AI except no long glove is used. twodogsbarking Sunday #10

Just the other day I was bemoaning lost skill sets even without AI nuxvomica Sunday #11

Or gardening...With summer coming and prices skyrocketing,well BattleRow Sunday #21

We've given up on gardening; very expensive wildlife food, lol! mwmisses4289 Sunday #28

Yes,that's understandable. BattleRow Sunday #37

Lol. For us it wasn't just the various caterpillars, stink bugs and other creepy crawlers, mwmisses4289 Sunday #39

Food insecurity is on the rise on All fronts! BattleRow Sunday #43

My experience as well Mossfern Sunday #42

Cripes, people can't even drive cars with manual transmissions anymore. SheltieLover Sunday #35

Or dial a rotary phone nuxvomica Sunday #36

LOL Yup, check writing has gone the way of cursive, apparently. SheltieLover Sunday #40

Today's parents don't get it because they weren't taught the basics in school FakeNoose Sunday #12

Agism is an unsavory business. littlemissmartypants Sunday #15

Actually, quite a number of the 20 and 30 somethings I know realized they were shortchanged. mwmisses4289 Sunday #30

Thanks for sharing this highplainsdem. ... littlemissmartypants Sunday #14

Big K & R. ALL parents must read this Psychology Today report if they want thinking children to control their futures. ancianita Sunday #17

There is evidence to support this all over social media debsy Sunday #19

Just an opinion... lonely bird Sunday #20

IMHO AI should be highly regulated, by gov't policies, parents and ourselves. Buddyzbuddy Sunday #26

Jensen Huang is one seriously evil fuck. Initech Sunday #27

I noticed all of these in my daughter 25 years ago - long before AI. Ms. Toad Sunday #31

I see this with software all the time. I am not a computer scientist LisaM Sunday #34

Adults also lost the ability to hand print and hand embellish books... WarGamer Sunday #48

The article is about cognitive atrophy in adults and cognitive foreclosure in children, because of AI highplainsdem Sunday #49

In my line of work (copy-editing for publishers), AI's been in use for some years. Emrys Sunday #50

That sounds maddening, Emrys. highplainsdem 19 hrs ago #53

Oh, I just scratched the surface on its cranky ways, and those of publishing in general Emrys 17 hrs ago #56

A big, not a feature DonCoquixote Sunday #51

This is going to be a big problem Johnny2X2X 18 hrs ago #55